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James L. Walker

James L. Walker

Male 1838 - 1862  (23 years)

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  • Name James L. Walker 
    Born 3 May 1838  Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3
    • Elijah was appointed administrator for the estate of his son James L. Walker. Does this indicate that he owned property?
    Gender Male 
    Buried 1862  [2
    • Could be buried at Shiloh.
    Died 11 Feb 1862  [4, 5
    Person ID I2438  Full | ProgenitorWalker
    Last Modified 24 Jul 2009 

    Father Elijah Walker,   b. 14 Sep 1802, Georgia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 26 Jul 1872, Dickson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years) 
    Mother Mary "Polly" McMillan,   b. 17 Mar 1813, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 1880  (Age 67 years) 
    Married 2 Apr 1835  Dickson County, Tennessee, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 6, 7
    • Esther Pratt states: "The record of Elijah to Polly McMillan was blown from the marriage book, but the original was in a drawer in the courthouse, was saved, and I have a copy."
    Family ID F569  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Documents
    Elijah Walker, bond for administration of the estate of James L. Walker, deceased (1862), Dickson County, TN
    Elijah Walker, bond for administration of the estate of James L. Walker, deceased (1862), Dickson County, TN
    Elijah Walker and W. H. Horner, bond no. 566, for administration of the estate of James L. Walker, deceased (1862); loose papers, estate settlements, Dickson County Archives, Charlotte, Tennessee
    Elijah Walker, 1850 Humphreys County, Tennessee, census
    Elijah Walker, 1850 Humphreys County, Tennessee, census
    1850 U.S. census, Humphreys County, Tennessee, population schedule, [township not stated], p. 290 (penned), p. 145 (stamped, verso), dwelling 754, family 754, Elijah Walker household; digital images, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 6 December 2011); citing NARA microfilm publication M432, roll 884.

    1860 U. S. census, Dickson County, Tennessee, population schedule, Middle Division, Danielsville, p. 49 (penned), p. 226 (stamped), dwelling 347, family 347, Elijah Walker household; digital image, Ancestry.com (http://www.ancestry.com : accessed 26 August 2007); citing NARA microfilm publication M653, roll 1247.

  • Sources 
    1. [S65] Virginia Dare (Walker) Sawyer to Janis Walker Gilmore, letter, 1998; regarding the Elijah Walker family of Dickson County, Tennessee.

    2. [S99] Esther Pratt (6408 Worchester Drive; Nashville, Tennessee) to Sandra Johnston (Oklahoma), letter, 13 May 1997, regarding the Elijah Walker family of Dickson County, Tennessee. Privately held by Ms. Johnston. The author has lost contact with Ms. Johnston and no longer knows her whereabouts.

    3. [S1129] Louise Gillespie Lynch, Bible Records Williamson County, Tennessee (Nashville, Tennessee: Lynch, 1970), 35, for the Collins Walker Bible.
      "A. M. Walker married F. J. Davis August 15th, 1871.
      James Davis was born September 28th, in the year of our Lord, 1828.
      Louetta Davis was born 20th of January in the year of our Lord, 1828."

    4. [S185] Tennessee, Dickson - Dickson County Handbook, Jill Knight Garrett, (Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1984), p. 221, entry for J.L. Walker, Company D, 49th Tennessee, died 11 Feb 1862 (Reliability: 3).

    5. [S1428] Elijah Walker and W. H. Horner, bond no. 566, for administration of the estate of James L. Walker, deceased (1862); loose papers, estate settlements, Dickson County Archives, Charlotte, Tennessee.

    6. [S108] Sherry J. Kilgore, comp., Dickson County, Tennessee: Marriages 1817-1856 (Nashville, Tn.: Byron Sistler & Associates, Inc., 1987), entry for Elijah Walker and Polly McMillian, p. 30 (1835).

    7. [S5085] FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1619127) > Tennessee, County Marriages, 1790-1950 > Dickson > Marriage records, 1817-1836 > images 1134-37, Elijah Walker-Polly McMillan [McMillan], licensed 30 March 1835, marriage 2 April 1835; FHL film 497,399; [Courthouse Annex, Charlotte.].